Put exercise on your calendar. Use a fake name for the appointment to disguise from students/colleagues.

Make email filters so you only see controversial emails when you have space to process them. E.g. difficult committees or faculty list serves.

Productivity

Anything you can pay people to do, pay them to do it. Outsource. If it’s for your kids, pay them well. Efficiency wages inspire loyalty, dependability.

Only check email first thing in the morning and last thing in the afternoon. Huge efficiency gain and many fires put themselves out.

President Obama avoided decision fatigue by avoiding unnecessary decisions. Make an Excel spreadsheet with 12 outfits in rotation. “This is one of the outfits! Yes, even the scarf is in the spreadsheet.”

Saying No

Best advice of the workshop: “What would a hot shot do?” said like Tom Cruise in Top Gun. “Cuz that’s what you should do.”